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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Passive Optical Networks (PONs)

Overview This tutorial discusses the economics, operator and customer benefits, and technological development of optical distribution networks with asynchronous transfer mode passive optical networks (ATM PONs). ATM–PON infrastructure is widely cited by telecommunications carriers and equipment vendors as potentially the most effective broadband access platform for provisioning advanced multimedia services as well as legacy services such as tier 1 (T1). Since 1995, an influential group of worldwide carriers and equipment vendors has been developing requirement specifications for a full-service access network with ATM PON as the core technology.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	International Engineering Consortium	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	31
Format	White Papers
Topics	Optical Networking, ATM, T1, T2, T3

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